Sanctuary Cities: Official Misconduct and Republican-Led States

sanctuary cities: Final approval that again broke along party lines helped the proposal clear the House in the late afternoon, according to Brandon Sun. It would allow Texas to withhold funding from county and local governments for acting as sanctuary cities. The key 93-54 vote advancing the bill came just before 3 a.m. and followed 15-plus hours of heated, sometimes tearful debate, much of it from outnumbered Democrats unable to stop the bill. Other Republican-led states have pushed for similar policies, but Texas would be the first in which police chiefs and other officials could face a misdemeanour criminal charge of official misconduct and be removed from office for not helping enforce immigration law. Sanctuary cities has no legal definition, but the bill is needed to keep the public safe and remove bad people from the street, its House sponsor, Rep. An entity failing to follow the law could be subjected to a civil penalty of 1,500 for a first offence and 25,500 for any subsequent violation. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.